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Catharine Maria Sedgwick was the most famous and successful
American woman fiction writer in the first half of the nineteenth
century. During her lifetime, literary critics and historians
routinely recognized her as a primary founder of a distinctly
American literature, along with Washington Irving, James Fenimore
Cooper, and Sedgwick’s close friend, William Cullen Bryant.
Nevertheless, Sedgwick nearly passed out of literary history
altogether before scholars began to reexamine her work in the 1970s
and subsequently restored her to a place of prominence in criticism
and the classroom. With modern scholarly editions of her novels in
print, various selections of her fiction included in the major
American teaching anthologies, essays …

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